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The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema
The Architecture of Vision Writings and Interviews on Cinema Author:Michelangelo Antonioni ?A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality.? Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and L?Avventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship wit... more »h reality in The Architecture of Vision.
Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the director?s unique brand of narrative-defying cinema as well as the motivations and anxieties of the man behind the camera.
?The Architecture of Vision provides a filmmaker?s absorbing reflections and insights on his career. . . . Antonioni?s comments . . . deepen and humanize a sometimes cerebral book.??Publishers Weekly
?[Antonioni?s] erudition is astonishing . . . few of his peers can match his verbal articulateness.??Film Quarterly
?This valuable resource offers entrée to material difficult to gain access to under other circumstances.??Library Journal« less